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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
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